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The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
David Kermode, wine expert, talks through his top drinking picks of the week.
Episodes
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 230 - The Whisky World Tour with Joel Harrison
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is Club Oenologique columnist, Joel Harrison, a Keeper of…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 229 - South Africa’s Cap Classique
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David talks to Pierre de Klerk, cellar master at Graham Beck - winner of…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 228 - Highlights of Series 19
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David looks back at some highlights, including Eric Heerema, owner of…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 227 - North American Whiskey with Millie Milliken
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to spirits writer and author Millie Milliken for a snapshot…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 226 - Tommy Grimshaw, Langham Wine Estate
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David visits Langham Wine Estate to meet head winemaker, Tommy Grimshaw…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 225 - Nina Basset
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is Nina Basset, co-founding trustee of the Gérard Basset…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 224 - UK Sommelier of the Year, Maria Boumpa
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Fresh from being crowned IWSC UK Sommelier of the Year 2025, Maria…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 223 - Klaas Stoffberg, Babylonstoren
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to Babylonstoren, the Cape Dutch farm in the Western Cape…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 222 - Franciacorta
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David explores Franciacorta, the Italian traditional method sparkling…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 221 - Eric Heerema, Nyetimber
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David talks to Eric Heerema, owner of Nyetimber, the pioneering English…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 220 - The ‘Nouveau’ Beaujolais
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to Beaujolais reporting on the rebirth of the region -…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 219 - Dermot Sugrue
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. To celebrate English Wine Week, David is joined by the country’s top…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 218 - Tamlyn Currin
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to Tamlyn Currin, wine writer for JancisRobinson.com…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 217 - Highlights of Series 18
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. This week, some highlights from series 18, Mumm’s new cellar master Yann…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 216 - Patrick McGrath MW on Domaine Evremond
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. In 2015, when Champagne Taittinger announced it was teaming up with its…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 215 - Elaine Chukan Brown
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David talks to Elaine Chukan Brown, author of The Wines of California…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 214 - Ian Hongell, chief winemaker, Torbreck
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s guest is Ian Hongell, chief winemaker at Torbreck, one of…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 213 - Andrew Caillard MW on The Australian Ark
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to Master of Wine, Andrew Caillard, winner of the IWSC Wine…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 212 - Alex Watson
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to Alex Watson about Renais Gin, the brand he has founded…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 211 - English Chardonnay
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. England’s nascent still wine scene gets ever more exciting, with premium…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 210 - Wines of Lisbon with Libby Brodie
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Lisbon, Portugal’s beguiling capital, is also an enticing wine region…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 209 - Sunny Hodge on his Cynic’s Guide to Wine
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Sunny Hodge is David’s guest to talk about his new book, The Cynic’s…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 208 - Côtes du Rhône Villages
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. In the second special episodes, David’s focus is Côtes du Rhône…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 207 - Côtes du Rhône
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. In the first of two special episodes, David explores the wines of Côtes…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 206 - Yann Munier, cellar master, GH Mumm
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David meets the new face of GH Mumm, Yann Munier, who joined last April…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 205 - Highlights of Series 17
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David reflects on some special moments in series 17, including the…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 204 - Austria - Dirceu Vianna Jr MW and Melania Battiston
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Austria is the focus as David chats to Master of Wine, Dirceu Vianna…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 203 - Mike Dawson, Journey’s End
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to Journey’s End estate at the far end of the Stellenbosch…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 202 - Cerasuolo di Vittoria
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Sicily’s only DOCG, Cerasuolo di Vittoria, is David’s focus this week as…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 201 - The wines of China with Susie Barrie MW and Antony Moss MW
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. China is now the world’s sixth most important producer of wine and the…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 200 - The creator of ‘The Chocolate Block’, Marc Kent
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. It is one of South Africa’s most celebrated and successful premium…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 199 - Ribera del Duero
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to Castilla y León to explore Ribera del Duero, meeting…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 198 - Alice Paillard
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s joined by CEO and co-owner of Champagne Bruno Paillard, Alice…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 197 - Dawn Davies MW on North American Whisky
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Bourbon or rye, blended or single malt, the USA and Canada offer a…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 196 - Bar trends with Emma Hutchison
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Continuing his look at what’s in store for 2025, David talks bar trends…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 195 - Drinks in 2025 with Richard Siddle
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. ‘The Chief’ is back with his annual predictions for what’s in store for…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 194 - Dry January
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s joined by Laura Willoughby, co-founder of Club Soda and Irem…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 193 - Highlights of Series 16
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David brings us his favourite moments from the latest series: including…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 192 - Alsace with Anne Krebiehl MW and Eric Zwiebel MS
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David dives into the rich complexity of Alsace with Master of Wine Anne…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 191 - Whisky’s ‘ultimate experience’
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. In what has been described as ‘the ultimate experience for whisky…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 190 - Rombauer’s Richie Allen
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David talks to the head winemaker at Napa’s Rombauer Vineyards, Richie…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 189 - Europe’s best sommelier + agave spirits masterclass
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David reports from Belgrade on the contest to be ‘ASI Best Sommelier in…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 188 - Dominique Demarville + ‘pre-loved’ whisky
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to the Champagne village of Aÿ to meet Dominique…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 187 - South Africa’s winning wines + world whisky with Billy Abbott
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David’s joined by John Hoskins MW, former chief examiner at the…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 186 - Alice Lascelles on The Martini + Japanese whisky with Billy Abbott
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Author and FT columnist Alice Lascelles is David’s guest to talk about…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 185 - Michel Drappier
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David welcomes one of the most famous names in Champagne, Michel…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 184 - Kristiane Sherry’s whisky report + Irish whisky with Billy Abbott
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David is joined by whisky expert, Kristiane Sherry, to talk about her…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 183 - Whisky with Billy Abbott
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David delves in the world of whisky with renowned expert, author and…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 182 - Fr’um founder Anthony Peart
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. From his humble beginnings in hospitality to the bar of Tom Kerridge’s…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 181 - Highlights of Series 15
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David reflects on the highlights of series 15 featuring Perrier-Jouët…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 180 - Gérard Bertrand
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David travels to Château L’ Hospitalet in Languedoc-Roussillon to meet…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 179 - Margaret River with Alex Hunt MW and Shanteh Wale
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Responsible for a mere two percent of Australia’s grape crush, Margaret…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 178 - Amber… the original orange
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. They are all the rage on wine lists, but orange wines have a long and…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 177 - Tom Surgey
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. A familiar face for his work with ‘The Three Wine Men’, writer and…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 176 - Turkey with Sarah Abbott MW and Isa Bal MS
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Famously where East meets West, Turkey offers a treasure trove of…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 175 - Lebanon with Faouzi Issa
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to the winemaker Faouzi Issa from Lebanon’s Domaine des…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 174 - Tasmania
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. Celebrated for sparklers and more recently for still wines too, Tasmania…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 173 - Paso Robles
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David chats to Steve Lohr, whose father Jerry was a pioneer in Paso…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 172 - House of Hazelwood
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David talks to House of Hazelwood director, Jonathan Gibson, and…
- The Drinking Hour: With David Kermode - FoodFM
Episode 171 - Tim Shand, Voyager Estate
In partnership with Club Oenologique - the world through the lens of wine and spirits. David talks to the Chief Winemaker Tim Shand, at pioneering Margaret…